yes, chapter 2! finally!

Star galloped ahead, leading her father to where the 3 new horses waited. As they came into view, the 3 horses looked up. The oldest was a bay mare that looked to be about 10 years old. The other 2 were younger, both looking to be about 3 years old, and had black coats, manes, and tails. The colt was the bigger of the two, standing about 2 hands taller at the shoulder, and was much more muscular. The filly was smaller, with a light-weight frame, and had a thin, jagged streak of white branching out down her chest that looked like a bolt of lightning.

When he saw them, Spirit was amazed at how different, yet how similar they looked. Though horse twins were rare, since foals usually take up so much room before they're born just by themselves and one is usually weaker and dies, the pair of twins who lived in the herd currently had both looked exactly the same and were the same size, so Spirit had naturally assumed that that was how these two would look. Obviously, he now saw, that was not the case.

When they got close, the mare walked up to them and introduced herself and her children. "Hello. My name is Dust. These are my children, Thunder," she said looking at the colt "and Lightning." She looked towards the filly. "We would like to join your herd." She said simply. Spirit nodded. "Yes, my daughter told me of your request. So, let me be the first to welcome you into my herd."

Dust bowed her head respectfully. "I thank you kindly sir. If there's anything else we can-"She was cut off abruptly by Spirit. "No thanks necessary, Dust. And please, call me Spirit." Dust nodded again, then Star said to the other two young ones "Come on Thunder and Lightning! Let's go run!" and the trio darted off together.

Spirit watched them running off happily together, then went to go back to his watch hill. That was another reason why Star was always shadowing him. She had never had any friends of her own to run around with. She had been the only foal born in the herd that year and even her younger sisters had never really paid much attention to her. She had always been more distant from the other young horses, so she'd spent her time with her father. It was good for her to have friends to play with that were her age, Spirit thought, very good indeed.

Word spread very quickly about the three new horses that joined the herd when young Star was seen racing around with her two newfound best friends. Rain and Esperanza, Spirit's mother, a palomino with a white blaze running down her face, watched approvingly from the herd. They had always felt that Star needed friends and now here they were. Star's younger sisters also heard about the new comers. Especially Thunder.

Cloud, a two year-old grey filly, and Sweetie, a bay yearling with a black heart on her forehead, had always had lots of attention from the other young colts who were trying to impress them, and, as a result, were very stuck-up horses. When they heard about Thunder, they decided that they wanted him to try to chase them around and impress them. They wanted to have a handsome colt try to win their affection. For them that would be the ultimate prize and symbol that they were the prettiest horses in the herd.

When Star, Thunder, and Lightning took a break from running around, the 2 vain horses saw their chance. Giggling, they walked up to Thunder. "Hi." "Hi." They said one after the other, still giggling. "Hello." Said Thunder modestly. Well, these 2 fillies look nice. He thought to himself. And they're really pretty, too.

Star looked upward, sighed, and shook her head. Flirts, she thought. Then Star walked up to her younger siblings, who were still flirting with Thunder, and said: "Go away, you two. You have about 5 or 6 little colts that are always following you around, and you've both broken the hearts of all of them more than once. You could leave at least one colt in the herd without a broken heart, couldn't you? Now leave us alone. Come on, guys. Let's go." And Star and her 2 friends trotted off.

Thunder was thoroughly confused. "Why did we have to leave them? I thought they seemed really nice." Lightning felt the same. "Yeah, what was so bad about them?" Star sighed. "Look, Thunder, you don't want to get caught up with those two. My sisters are just little vain pains. They bounce around between every colt in the herd. Whenever they get bored with one, they break his heart, and then go off with some other colt. Every colt here has had their heart broken at least 5 times. Trust me; you do not want to get caught up with them unless you're looking to get your heart broken.

"Well, alright. If you say so." Thunder said, even though he still looked confused. He looked over at his sister and shrugged. Then they both followed Star, who had taken off again.

Spirit looked down from his watch hill and smiled. That's my girl.

okay, i know my chapters are kinda short, but if i tried to make them longer, it'd just be one long story with no chapters. sorry.